Gate-hinge



, NO MODEL.

0. PELMULDBR.

GATE HINGE.

APPLIGATION FILED JUNE 18, 1903.

7 H H W PATENTED 513.23, 1904.

Patented February 23, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES PELMULDER, OF GRANT CITY, IOWA.

GATE-HINGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 753,103, dated February 23, 1904.

Application filed June 18, 1903.

T0 aZZ whont it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES PELMULDER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Grant City, in the county of Sac and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Gate-Hinge,

of which the following is a specification.

My object is to provide simple, strong, and durable irons for hanging a gate so it can swing in reverse ways and automatically close by force of gravity. 7

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combination of a semicircular track and gate-support, hinge-irons, and a roller-bearer, as hereinafter set forth, pointed out in my claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of the semicircular track and gate-support. Fig. 2 shows a hingeiron adapted to be fixed to a post; and Fig. 3, a pintle adapted to be fixed to a gate, as required, to hinge a gate so it can swing in reverse ways relative to a fixed post and rise and descend as it opens and closes. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a hinged gate that shows my invention applied as required for practical use. p

The numeral designates the semicircular track connected at its ends by a straight crossbar 12, formed integral therewith by casting in a mold or fixed thereto by welding or in any suitable way to produce a rigid semicircular frame that may vary in size and weight to suit gates of different sizes. The rear face of the cross-bar 12 is inclined, so that when fixed against a post the semicircular track 10 will incline downward, as shown in Fig. 2, and a gate supported thereon will normally be in a closed position. At the center of the semicircle there is a concave 13, wherein a roller carried by a gate will rest, as required, to keep the gate closed.

A perforated car 14, projected inward from the center of the track 10, serves as a means for fixing a brace thereto so the brace can also be fixed to the face of a fixed gate-post, as shown in Fig. 2, and as required to aid in supporting the weight of a gate that will rest upon the track 10.

In the practical use of my invention one of the hinge-irons 15 is fixed in the upper and Serial. No. 162,096. (No model.)

one in the lower portion of a gate-post and one of the pintles 16 fixed to the top of the rear part of a gate and the other to the lower part to project in opposite ways in a vertical plane and through the fixed hinge-irons, as shown in Fig. 4. A roller-bearer 17 is fixed to the rear and lower corner of the gate and a roller 18 journaled thereto in such a manner that when the gate is closed the roller will rest in the concave 13 at the center of the semicircular track 10, and when the gate is opened to the right or to the left the roller will advance on the track and the gate-will be elevated sufliciently so that when pressure againstthe gate is relaxed the gate will by force of gravity return to its closed normal position. i

It is obvious the enlarged and perforated ends of the pintles 16 may be concaved on their inside faces to fit against the convex surface of a gate-frame made of gas-pipes or flat to be fixed to the fiat surface of a frame made of square wooden bars.

Having thus described the purpose of my invention and its construction, application, and operation, its practical utility will be obvious to persons familiar with hinged gates.

What I claim as new, and desire. to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a gate-hinge, the combination of a semicircular frame adapted to serve as a track and having an integral perforated lug at the under side and center of semicircle, a brace fixed to the lug and the frame and brace fixed to a post, as shown and described for the purposes stated.

2. Agate-hinge comprising a semicircular frame and track having a perforated ear and a concave in its top and center, a brace fixed to the center of the track and to a post, a hingeiron fixed to a post, a pintle fixed to a gate and extended through the hinge-iron, a rollerbearer fixed to the gate and a roller journaled to the bearer, as shown and described to operate in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

' 7 CHARLES PELMULDER. Witnesses:

H. A. Low, CHAS. E. GRIFFIN. 

